CVE-2005-1061
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2005-04-21 04:00
Modified
2024-08-07 21:35
Severity ?
Summary
The secure script in LogWatch before 2.6-2 allows attackers to prevent LogWatch from detecting malicious activity via certain strings in the secure file that are later used as part of a regular expression, which causes the parser to crash, aka "logwatch log processing regular expression DoS."
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-364.htmlVendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla-old/show_bug.cgi?id=137502
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-364.htmlVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla-old/show_bug.cgi?id=137502
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